Several vessels have borne the name ''Dart'', for the

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or the River Dart: * was launched at Plymouth in 1787. ''Dart'' initially traded with Newfoundland and then the Mediterranean. From 1797 she made four voyages as a

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in the

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in enslaved people. She was condemned at Barbados in 1802 as she was returning to London after having delivered slaves to Demerara. * was launched at Rotherhithe and made two voyages as a packet boat for the British

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; she then disappears from readily accessible online records. * was launched at Dartmouth in 1799. Between 1800 and 1804 she made two complete voyages from Liverpool as a

. She wrecked in 1804 early in the outward bound leg of her third slave voyage. * was launched at

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in 1792, came into British hands in 1801, and became a sealer and whaler in the South Seas fisheries. She was last listed in 1810. * was launched in South America in 1797, taken in prize in 1806, made one whaling voyage and one voyage as a privateer capturing five slave vessels off Sierra Leone in 1810, before returning to mercantile trade. She was condemned as unseaworthy in 1813. * was a merchant ship built at

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, England in 1818. She made three voyages transporting convicts from

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. * operated in the early 1900s as part of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet. * The Dart Line ferry operator had several vessels named ''Dart'': ; ; , a ferry, launched 1985, now known as MS ''Phocine''; ; ; , 1998, now known as MS ''Arrow''; , 1998, now known as MS ''Clipper Ranger''; ; * The

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operated MV ''Dart America'', MV ''Dart Atlantic'', and MV ''Dart Europe''

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